Status Updates From How to Make a Woman

As for Rose’s father, he’s gone off the radar. Not dead, but apparently stuck in that zone where fathers get lost — the Bermuda Triangle between their job, their best mate and one or more women somewhere.

She talks about her frustration with her Friday-night shrink, a woman. [...] When she walks out, exhilarated, tearful or joyful, those three-quarters of an hour have become like semicolons in the narrative of her life. Meaning builds, like the construction of a house, but for now there are too many doors and windows all over the place.